After Carey was beheaded and executed, there was a lot of applause, and many people found it difficult to get rid of their hatred, so they rushed up and kicked the head that had rolled off the execution table, spat in the most vicious language, and even threatened to kill the relatives of the dog official.

Kerry's body lay alone in front of the guillotine, twitching from time to time, and as for the story behind it, no one cared about it for a long time under the angry crowd mood.

"Silence! In addition to the fire in the granary, there was another incident at the Dragonfire Festival, as everyone must know—" Gomer raised his voice to suppress the noise of the crowd, and he pointed to the guards, and said in a deep voice, "bring that man up." ”

In front of everyone's attention, a dirty beggar was brought up by the guards, and although he pretended to be calm, he was now nervous judging by the swing of his legs and his wandering eyes.

This is not surprising, even if they have long regarded death as their home and are ready to sacrifice themselves for others, but in front of the guillotine, there are only a few people who can really be calm.

Gomer pointed to the beggar and said solemnly to everyone: "This person, on the night of the Dragon Fire Festival, broke into the Qingjiang embankment, hijacked the unsuspecting embankment supervisor, pulled the gate and discharged the flood, and flooded most of the northern city, what should he do?" ”

The crowd was still immersed in the anger of Kerry's beheading, and immediately shouted without thinking: "Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Kill ???" Gome showed a look of astonishment, and quickly stretched out his hand to take the beggar, led him to the stage, and said righteously, "This is a hero!" ”

"He hijacked the head of the embankment and released the flood without permission, which should have been a capital crime, but his original intention was to use the water of the Qingjiang River to relieve the granary fire! Although it didn't work out in the end, what a brave move?! ”

"He's saving you! It's also saving Danyu City! Die? No! This is not the destiny of a hero, he should be respected by all of us! ”

Gomez took the beggar by the wrist, raised one of his arms into the air, and shouted loudly, "In the name of the Archon of Danyu City, I forgive him the crime of opening the floodgates, and reward him with 100 silver moons as a reward!" ”

At this moment, the people were stupid, and the beggars were stupid.

The beggar thought that his life was over, and he could commit a capital crime for Ma Ban before he died, and it was good to die early and be reincarnated, anyway, there was no hope for food every day, and it was not in vain to be able to keep a clean official.

But who would have thought that Gomez would actually exempt him from the crime of opening the floodgates, and even give him a fortune that he could never have dreamed of.

When the beggar took the bag of silver moon handed over by the guard, some of the people in the audience were sour, and some were red-eyed, wishing that it was themselves who opened the floodgates that night.

Of course, there is a spontaneous respect for the brave beggar, and for the iron-faced and selfless but reasonable consul Gome, who does not spare the bad guys or wrongs the good guys.

At this moment, Gomez's image became incomparably majestic in the hearts of the people, and gradually, cheers rose one after another:

"Lord Gome! You are a worthy consul! What a lucky thing it is to have you in Danyu City! ”

"We have no regrets about being your people, and we will always follow behind you! No matter what happens, we've got your back! ”

"Lord Gomer knows everything and will definitely take us through this crisis!"

Gome smiled, raised his hands and pressed them weakly, and said indifferently: "Thank you very much for your support, this is just my responsibility as an archon, there is nothing to brag about." That's all for today's assembly, and everyone can disperse..."

"My lord! Wait, I have a question! A civilian squeezed to the front and asked worriedly, "Our families have no surplus food now, and there was still some high-priced grain in the market a few days ago, but now we can't buy it at a high price." Everyone is waiting for the wheat in the Danyu Plain to save their lives this season, but the royal family has ordered us to pull out the wheat stalks and plant blood essence grass instead, what are you going to do? ”

Gome signaled not to panic, smiled and said: "This matter, please believe in our kingdom, the royal family will definitely give everyone a satisfactory explanation." ”

...

After the rally, Gomez drove back to the consul residence in a horse-drawn carriage, smiling all the way and politely responding to civilians who saluted him.

But as soon as he arrived at the consul's mansion and cut off the sight of the outside world, his face suddenly became extremely gloomy, as if he was about to drip water.

Lin Gengsen and Gomai almost entered the door with their front and back feet, Lin Gengsen was so anxious that his whole face was wrinkled, and he stretched out his hand and pushed Gomey: "Lao Mai, what are you doing?" Why not execute the beggar who discharged the flood? actually gave him a commendation? Are you crazy?! ”

Gomex scolded back, "You're the one who didn't figure it out!" A little beggar, do you think he can think of the trick of flooding and firefighting? Even if he thinks about it, he has the ability to sneak into the levee and hold the supervisor hostage? Or just calculate the amount of flood discharge, only flooding the northern city? That's a beggar who lives to waste food! Who do you think he is? ”

Lin Gengsen was a little confused: "What is going on with the flood discharge of the Qingjiang embankment." ”

Gomez sighed heavily, and said in a deep voice: "I have already interrogated clearly, the person who went to the embankment that day still has Ma Ban, and the idea of venting the flood and fighting the fire should have been Ma Ban, but the person who pulled the gate was the beggar, and there was only his finger palm print on the control lever, this is a scapegoat who is intent on taking the blame for Ma Ban. ”

Lin Gengsen asked inexplicably: "He wants to die, can you just let him die?" Why should he be commended? ”

Gomer paced back and forth angrily, his face flushed: "My old friend, you still haven't figured it out, and the flood discharge is no longer important!" No one will care! Now the key point is the Danyu Plain! ”

"Ah Bao is dead, our plan to buy instead of farming cannot be implemented, although the millions of tons of grain are still in the hands of Boss Du Mingwei, they can no longer be taken out!"

"In the eyes of the outside world, the grain has been burned clean by the fire, and if we suddenly take out the grain again, everyone will know that we colluded with Du Mingwei and deliberately planned the granary fire."

"So, now we're out of the way, you know? If we don't uproot the wheat stalks in the Danyu Plain and don't implement the decree to plant blood essence grass in order to protect the people, we won't be able to pay the difference to the top, and we will have a dead end. ”

"If we go to implement the decree and pull out the wheat stalks in the Danyu Plain, more than 6 million civilians in Danyu City will have no food to eat, and when the time comes, there will be a famine and a civil uprising, and the two of us will either be caught and hanged by the hungry people, or we will be scapegoated by the royal family and pushed out for execution."

"We're dead end now, you know?!"

Lin Gengsen should have been mentally prepared for this, so he didn't seem too surprised, but asked silently: "What you said, does it have anything to do with commending beggars?" ”

"It matters, because in addition to the two roads just mentioned, there is still a path to take... But this road is extremely dangerous, not to advance or retreat, but to open up by ourselves. Gomez clenched his fists, his eyes were extremely hot, and he said the second half of the sentence repeatedly...

"This road... It's public opinion! ”